Peers and Parvenus Volume 3; A Novel

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1846 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. And ye, proud fair, whose soul no gladness warms, Save rapture's homage to your conscious charms, --Delighted idols of a gaudy train, --HI can your blunter feelings guess the pain, When the fond faithful heart, inspired to prove Friendship refined, the calm delight of love, Feels all its tender strings with anguish torn, And bleeds at perjured pride's inhuman scorn. Campbell. Heaven and earth, Edmund, seek him out!-Wind me into him, I pray you!--Frame the business after your own wisdom. Shakspeabe. The friendship of the Countess von Adlerberg was of a nature so much more firm than might have been anticipated from her levity of character, that in deference to the mystery in which Jervis chose to envelop his departure, she made no allusion to his visit, except to Lucy Hecksworth, --the last person in Naples likely to betray the confidence. His absence, therefore, remained unnoticed. Lord John and his tutor were said to be gone to England; and when it at length transpired that Cleve also had disappeared, his zealous champion of the Austrian embassy circulated a report that the young dottore was engaged to pursue, in the environs of Etna, his researches into volcanic formations. The pretext was plausible. Yet a variety of persons remained persuaded that he had fled before their faces. Mrs Hecksworth was the only one who spoke out; observing, that the young man doubtless found it embarrassing to be in company, as an equal, with those from whom his father had received wages as a day-labourer. Nor was Lady Hillingdon less convinced that he was afraid she should denounce to the English coterie the humble condition in which she had detected his family at Glebestone, than George Joddrell and Herbert Davenport that, apprized of their intention to browbeat...